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After the sudden death of his father and finding out he is going to lose the house where him and his family have vacationed at for over 25 years, Nancho and his family will seek for a way to sabotage the sale and will fight for the house that belongs to them, where they have grown up and formed many memories. But the attachment and disobedience of Nancho will lead to the family taking drastic decisions.
Nov 2023
Chris, an exceptional student, is expelled from the school and suffers the neglect of the ones he loves after he commits a crime. Chris meets two lonely and dangerous new young friends that will lead him to explore the dark sides of his personality and to exploit his physical and emotional limits. The friends will experience a world without hope, living in a violent sociological environment that will create the conditions for the three of them to star looking for dead as the only one way of escape of their frustrated lives.
Oct 2012
After gaining alcohol-fueled superpowers, Ricardo, a young punk from the outskirts, sets out to change society. But one brutal mistake will ignite an international conflict, with him at the heart of the storm.
Oct 2025
Javier must reintegrate into society after spending 14 years in prison. His family and friends reject him, so he takes refuge in a house where he rents a room. There he meets Amanda, who helps him find a way to reunite with his teenage daughter that he barely knows.
Oct 2010
Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
Dec 2018
Paulina, a trainee social worker doing her internship in a reintegration center, meets Manuel, with whom she starts a friendship that promps her to question her vocation and begin a 'second adolescence', this time free from the tyranny of conventions and routine. Spending time in a world that does not belong to her.
Sep 2013
Lucas is a withdrawn young man with a deep desire to travel. However, he carries the responsibility of supporting his dysfunctional family in his consciousness. Enduring the rejection he feels for his unbridled, but outstanding younger brother and his accomplice mother obsessed with appearances, Luke's contradictory emotions explode into a violent crime.
Mar 2018
After their daughter is discriminated in her school, Victoria and Rosana's relationship falls into a crisis due to their different opinions on the matter. Victoria will have to face the fear of assuming her homosexuality and the possible dissolution of her family.
Aug 2016
After returning home, Clara begins an affair with the maid, Susana. Clara's mother soon after starts to suspect.
Nov 2011
A woman who is progressively losing her memory faces the harsh reality of a family illness that has no turning back.
Jun 2015
Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny.
Jan 2020
Jorge, a biology teacher, lost his wife 5 years ago, and has not been able to overcome his grief. His children consider their grandfather Roberto as their main father figure. Everything changes when the latter is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and they have to put him in a rest-home. It is then that Jorge reconsiders his damaged relationship with his father and children.
Oct 2015
Marcela is a little girl who wakes up in an unknown house, under the care of Angela, who fights for her custody with Matías. The girl will try to find her mother without results, but will discover a stark reality.
Oct 2020
In La Lágrima, a desertic mining lost town, women live under the strict rules of patriarchy. Dina (16), pressed by an unwanted pregnancy, plans to escape. But when she finds out her sister Sariri (11), has to initiate womanhood after the arrival of her menarche, she’ll have to decide if they’ll escape together through the desert.
Mar 2025
Sebastian comes to live in Santiago, to the home of his sister Rebeca, In a process of self-discovery, he realizes that she is a transgender woman. Start taking hormones to hide from Rebeca, fearing that she will judge her. One night, Rebeca finds hormones, and confronts Sebastian. Sebastian confesses that he is now Noa. A woman.
Nov 2017
A young swimmer with sleep disorder deals with the sudden disappearance of her mother and the arrival of Rebeca, a mysterious girl who rents a room in her home. Unaided from the police and confused by paranoia, she finds herself engulfed in a struggle to maintain her sanity and get her life back.
May 2019
In a world where an oppressive government persecutes tainted people, Lorna (22) is the only different person in her community. In this story, she discovers truths about her world and herself.
Sep 2024
A medical student enters the world of VR and AI to reunite with the love of her life, who passed away recently.
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After opening a chest of memories, a girl narrates events from chilean dictatorship and the murder of Nadia Fuentes Concha through the figure of bread, which is present in chilean everyday life.
Nov 2024